Quotes about lying
lying deceit
Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies. Stephen King
lying dark-tower truth-is
Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
lying bleeding towns
...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
lying men two
The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
lying philosophy faults
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
lying said-life way
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
lying real reading
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
lying beer men
A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
lying giving perfect
Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy. Stephen Ambrose
lying thinking people
There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
lying hate writing
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie. Taylor Momsen
lying exercise should-have
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all. Soren Kierkegaard
lying men world
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
lying enmity indifference
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
lying appropriation
The meaning lies in the appropriation.
lying law facts
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law. Stephen Vizinczey
lying heart body
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Stephen Vincent Benet
lying facts fiction
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. Stephenie Meyer
lying believe new-moon
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
lying love-you lie-to-me
Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.
lying reason-why reason
I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.
lying thinking voice
All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered. Stephen Chbosky
lying wish different
I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.
lying heart flames
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. Stefan Zweig
lying team winning
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. Sparky Anderson
lying parent protect
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good. Sophie Kinsella
lying tunnels light
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost. Thomas Pynchon
lying angel snow
Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills? Thomas Haynes Bayly
lying romance flutes
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. Thomas Gray
lying funeral deceit
Low on his funeral couch he lies!
lying heart dust
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. Thomas B. Macaulay
lying history gold
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.
lying silence mind
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.